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The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. We look at innovative firms in the period from 2000 to 2002 taken from the Mannheim Innovation Panel and estimate the … management on the share of cost reductions with process innovation. …
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Economists studying innovation and technological change have made significant progress toward understanding firms …' profit incentives as drivers of innovation. However, innovative performance in firms should also depend heavily on the …
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industry structure are determined endogenously. Weak appropriability conditions in the downstream industry enhance innovation …
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One of the major decisions that firms face regarding R&D-intensive businesses is a structural one: establishing the appropriate level of internal strategic interdependency within and among business units. The current discussion over the effectiveness of creating small, independent, and...
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This article is a review of work published in Management Science on the topics of technological innovation, product … addressed in Management Science in the area of innovation. Second, we hope that the article will be useful to sociologists of …
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Whereas a number of studies have considered the implications of employee mobility, comparatively little research has considered institutional factors governing the ability of employees to move from one firm to another. This paper explores a legal constraint on mobility--employee non-compete...
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This study examines how inventors’ breadth and depth of expertise influence innovation in 3M, a company renowned for … sustained innovation for over a century. While prior research tends to examine a single indicator – the technical success … commercially successful products. Our study extends prior research on innovation in two ways. We provide a comprehensive view of …
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External innovation increases the profits of the median firm, but also increases dispersion and the kurtosis of the … evidence that the rewards from innovation are positively skewed, we find no effect of innovation strategies upon the skewness …
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existence of complementarity. We use our empirical methodology to analyze complementarity between innovation activities … external knowledge acquisition are complementary innovation activities, but that the degree of complementarity is sensitive to … research centers as an information source for the innovation process--as an important contextual variable affecting …
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